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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:01:17 GMT
walking away from the Quay, I turn around and shoot  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:02:01 GMT
and again.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:05:01 GMT
the buildings at the front are boring, but look what you can see from there! The cathedral! I will show you the cathedral later. it is at the heart of the City and can be seen from afar. The Normans knew what they were doing.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:06:57 GMT
we have our share of beautiful old building turned into terrible eateries. I refuse to call them restaurants.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:08:29 GMT
These banks were man-made in the seventies/eighties after catastrophic floods.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:10:39 GMT
In winter, water regularly floods the foot/cycle path. and sometimes goes almost as high as the concrete steps go. I have witnessed this myself. Shudder.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:11:38 GMT
another view of the river Exe  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:12:27 GMT
and in the other direction  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:13:34 GMT
these buildings are max. 3 years old.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:18:24 GMT
I'll try to explain what this picture means to me. In the fore, you can see modern buildings. Building companies have learnt that people want balconies... You can also see where the geese reside - certainly escaped from somewhere as opposed to properly wild, though. It seems there are more and more now. There was only one or two reported for a time. they are trumpeting their way into the community for food, like the swans, seagulls, coots and other cormorants do in the area. towards the back, you can see some of my favourite houses in town. they are on top of the hill. I believe some of these are georgian and some maybe older.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:20:08 GMT
the Mill on the Exe pub, with my favourite houses in the background.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:22:11 GMT
I should have explained that we have been walking along the valley that the river carved for itself in the numerous hills. I could not live somewhere flat.
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:22:47 GMT
I've seen people kayak their way through this.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:23:46 GMT
the tail end of the anti-flood system  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:24:49 GMT
shiny bridge.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:26:09 GMT
I am now leaving the riverside to walk towards town centre. a row of georgian houses on St David's Hill  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:26:42 GMT
Old cemetery  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:28:02 GMT
some of the tombs are still visible.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:28:37 GMT
but it does look like a picnic area, doesn't it?  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:29:39 GMT
still part of the same cemetery. surrounding houses.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:30:49 GMT
"view" towards St David's Hill, with the (now closed) catacombs in the foreground.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:31:45 GMT
the gates that guard the catacombs  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:33:25 GMT
last pic from the cemetery, towards a popular area. we're pretty much three minutes' walk from town centre.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:34:28 GMT
Town centre with some kind of semi-folly. I'd love to spend an afternoon reading up there!  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:36:13 GMT
cross the road and Cathedral Yard greets you. As mentioned earlier, the Normans transported the white stone from afar. That was a big "Who's the master, now, folks?" to the locals.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:55:34 GMT
I am desesperately hunting for a pic showing the cathedral in all its glory. I know I have it somewhere... I may be sometime. There are works on cathedral yard at the moment. they want to make it look new because the layout as seen in this pic has been around for pretty much 1000 years.  I would therefore not be able to take a pic now. and not for many months, I understand. |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:56:19 GMT
However, I promised ugly... and you can see some here a little bit past the cathedral yard, at the heart of the shopping area.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 10:57:20 GMT
a cacophony of genres  |
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 19, 2011 11:01:49 GMT
that is all for the moment.
I think it is fair to state that the town was quite nice and showing its good fortune. then the war destroyed a lot of it and they hurriedly built some of what you can see in the last two pics. none of these buildings date from later than the middle of last century. The Debenham's building being one of the newest additions to the shopping area. I will take a picture of this department store's old eyesore of a building another day. (i.e. a pic of the old Debenham's "tower" - you could see it for miles)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2011 11:52:57 GMT
This is great, Annie, and the "ugly" isn't even really ugly. It's just plain but quite well maintained from what I can see.
I love these threads about England because my ignorance about the country is unforgiveably abysmal. I always think of England as being 'flat' while Ireland is hilly and Scotland is mountainous -- talk about stereotypes! About the only one that holds up is that everything is always so magnificently green.
And you already have more signs of spring than we do in Paris.
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